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Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers

ISBN: 978-0-471-73513-7
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246 pages
August 2006
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Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1: Eldercare Fraud.

Chapter 2: Two Ways to Measure Employment.

Chapter 3: Bush League Economics.

Chapter 4: Long-Term Unemployment Myths.

Chapter 5: The Case of the Phantom Dropouts.

Chapter 6: Participation Rate Follies.

Chapter 7: What Does the Employment-Population Ratio Tell Us?

Chapter 8: May Average Hourly Earnings Rest in Peace.

Chapter 9: Hourly Compensation and the Unemployment Rate.

Chapter 10: Wages and Productivity.

Chapter 11: The Record Profit Boom That Never Happened.

Chapter 12: End the Monthly Madness: The Change in Payroll Employment Data.

Chapter 13: End the Monthly Madness: The Unemployment Rate.

Chapter 14: Greenspan Idolatry.

Chapter 15: Best-Selling Myths: Freakonomics.

Chapter 16:Best-Selling Myths: Nickel and Dimed.

Chapter 17: Dobbs and Jobs.

Afterword.

Notes.

Index.

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